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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

671 points · 327 comments · bastitx

  1. amoshebb · · focus · HN ↗
    Qwen3.8 27B beats Kolibri 79.9 vs 70.8 in German in Kolibri's harness on Kolibri's benchmark.

    Also, once the Cohere takeover is complete will they still be able to use this "sovereign" claim despite being 90% owned and 100% operated out of Toronto?

    1. Loquebantur · · focus · HN ↗
      Well, it's still independent from the USA and China.

      The main problems with big corp AI are due to control of access in the first place and control of what they output.

      When you make your industry reliant on such choke points, you render yourself the opposite of "sovereign" for sure. Having multiple independent suppliers at least mediates that.

      1. bewareofscams · · focus · HN ↗
        My account is banned, so for whomever with [showdead] on:

        What's so "not-sovereign" for an open-weights American or an open-weight-open-training-process Chinese LLM?

        Do we also need sovereign Linux (maybe), sovereign Postgres (most likely not), sovereign Python (def not)?

        1. throw-qqqqq · · focus · HN ↗
          You are not banned FYI
          1. satvikpendem · · focus · HN ↗
            It's more that all their comments are dead, some for good reason.
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